Some of us are interested in this kind of thing so thought I would share:

I sold 299 beaver in the 2024 season. They were sold at the Glenn's Ferry ITA sale and the two OTC sales in Oregon. After commissions were taken out my overall avg was $34.80 per pelt. When I add in castor, oil sacs and oil, and 50 raw skulls sold at the ITA sale add another avg of $7.93 per beaver.

So all in all (with 90 ozs of #2 castor still unsold at FHA) my net beaver avg for 2024 was $42.73

Unfortunately, I didn't have a market this season for beaver carcasses so they were used to some small extent for cat trapping or were composted for my garden. I sold the 5 cats caught off of beaver carcasses for a net $815 ($163 avg).

STUD!

So, just over 38 cents per hour for labor?

All and all I took in $14,500 from mid December to March 23rd. A lot of down time with the weather this year. For water critters I only had 32 checks. I did spend a lot on gas as I trapped in 5 different counties.

Assume all beaver stretched and dried......

That's the only game in town for us out west.

Nice

Congratulations

How much did you deduct for taxes?

BP on those 32 cks you must have got a few otter and 'rats too. So that might add on to the 14.5K? Either way you cut it a lot of work and money well earned.

It takes a good work ethic to put up numbers like that. Congrats on your reward for your hard work.

Awful nice job BP.

That is a great season, congratulations!

Great job. Thanks for sharing
Mac

That’s kicking tail!
Great job getting all the niche markets hit.
The only thing I throw away on a beaver is the intestines lol
I don’t sell very many carcasses, but I’ve got 7 hunting dogs that eat beaver almost 1/2 the year exclusively.
Saves me several dollars in feed, and they thrive on it.
I didn’t hit $40 BP, but it was close with everything figured in, but I got paid WAY more than $40 each to catch’em lol

Good job BP. I averaged $33 on plews. Still have the tails, raw skulls and castors. Butchered up about twenty of them and tossed the rest of the carcasses. All in all I was happy. My last three weeks I trapped the fur went downhill. Lots of bites on some and quite a few flat pelts. All my fur is always put up. Don't know anyone but Groeny that would buy green. I like putting up fur anyway, it's very therapeutic for me. I don't trap for money, but it is nice to make something more than just gas money. I trapped out places I was saving for a couple years and did mostly flooded farm land. Was the first year I had competition around in a long time and all three places they were trespassing. Good year for beaver for me. This year I also ran a very small weekend line with my great granddaughter Miss Aalaiya. Probably the most enjoyable trapping I've ever done. At eight years old I'm blessed to have her involved.

I only caught 1 rat all season but the figure mentioned was everything, which included 15-20 nutria and 8 otters. I averaged $79 on otters and I think $14 on nutria (sold some taxi and others with tail-on).

The big otter prices were mainly I think a peeing contest between a couple of buyers.

Thanks for the kind words Paul. That means a lot coming from a man of your stature in the trapping community.

My Schedule C for trapping this season will have to be dealt with April of 2025. I always do report so that is one of the reasons you don't see me being timid about talking about what I make trapping.